451–19

Conversation No. 451-19

Date: February 18, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:52 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

[Unintelligible]

Public relations
-Administration efforts
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Commerce Department
-Herbert Stein
-Statements
-Problem
-Need for credibility
-Maurice H. Stans

George P. Shultz entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm

Commerce Department
-Trade with Soviet Union
-President’s position
-Stans
-News summaries
-Stans
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-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming lunch with Rocco C. Siciliano

Department of Commerce
-Stans
-Administration policies
-Commerce Department and Labor Department Conv. No. 451-19 (cont.)
-Role

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm

-Siciliano
-Public relations efforts
-Siciliano’s conversation with Stans
-Results
-Replacement
-James T. Lynn
-Role
-Public relations
-Department of Justice
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Domestic economic policy
-Forecasting
-Gross National Product [GNP] figures
-Arthur K. Laffer
-Econometrics
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Adjustments
-Unknown writer
-Milton Friedman forecast
-Inflation
-Laffer’s model
-Money supply
-CPI
-Administrations policies
-Publicity
-Figures
-Washington Star
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
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-Economic trends
-Food prices
-Interest rates
-Mortgage interest rates
-Used car prices
-New car prices
-Trade bill
-Trade adjustment assistance Conv. No. 451-19 (cont.)
-Peterson
-Administration’s position on quotas
-Anti-trust
-Trade bill
-Mitchell role
-Administration policy
-Stanley N. Barnes
-Ehrlichman’s conversation
-Herbert Brownell
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Richard W. McLaren
-Mitchell
-John B. Connally
-President’s view
-World-wide applications
-Airlines
-Need for coherent policy
-George J. Stigler, head of Task Force on Anti-Trust
-Policy recommendation
-McLaren
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Role
-The President’s schedule
-Quadriad meeting
-Arthur F. Burns
-Increase money supply/interest rates
-Balance of payment
-Interest rates
-Troika meeting
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peterson
-Possible meeting with Connally
-David M. Kennedy
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-Connally
-Balance of payments
-Burns’ concerns
-Peterson
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI] statement
-[Forename unknown] Habland [sp?] or Hubler [?]
-Wage and price freeze
-Burns’ views Conv. No. 451-19 (cont.)
-James D. Hodgson
-Potential problems
-Effect on construction
-Unemployment
-Federal government’s $14 billion in contracts
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Building trade
-Stephen D. Bechtel
-View of Davis-Bacon Act
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Productivity Commission
-Hodgson
-Apprenticeship rules
-Charles W. Colson
-Hubert H. Humphrey’s statements
-George Meany
-Edmund S. Muskie’s statements
-Productivity Commission
-Labor union tactics
-Construction industry
-Wage increases
-Effect on public
-Federal spending
-State and local government tactics
-John A. Volpe
-Effect on employment
-CPI
-Bureau of Labor Statistics
-Announcement
-McCracken
-Administration efforts
-Public relations
-Press briefing
-Trends
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-Food prices
-Television statement by the President
-Shultz
-Administration policies
-Public relations
-Statements
-William L. Safire
-Clark MacGregor Conv. No. 451-19 (cont.)
-Effect of statement
-Economic stimulus
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-White House statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Washington Star
-Bureau of Labor Statistics role in public relations

Wilson Center speech
-Meeting with Humphrey
-Revenue sharing

Appointment
-James C. Fletcher
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
Haldeman left at 4:43 pm

CPI
-Connally and balance of payments
-Burns’s role in public relations
-Role

Federal-state/local government relations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller [?]
-Office of Inter-governmental Relations
-Problems
-The Vice President
-Roy Kerderhoff [?]
-Colson
-President’s position
-Conversation with the Vice President
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Warren Gorn [?]
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-Carl B. Stokes
-Richard G. Lugar
-Rockefeller
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration position
-Statements
-Barber B. Conable, Jr. Conv. No. 451-19 (cont.)
-John B. Anderson
-John V. Lindsay
-Funds for New York City
-Problems with revenue sharing
-James H. J. Tate
-New York City problems
-Revenue sharing
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Romney
-Connally
-Wilbur D. Mills

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 4:52 pm